What IDE do you use and where can I learn to work with the Java EE platform?
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Any of the Big Three IDEs (Eclipse, IntelliJ and Netbeans) are fine. Personally I use IntelliJ.
You probably don’t need to do any Java EE beyond having a Web container like Tomcat or Jetty and using Spring plus possibly JPA (eg Hibernate, EclipseLink). There are a plethora of Java Web frameworks that you can put on top of that (eg Struts 2, Wicket, Tapestry, JSF).
The advantage of Java EE is that you can plug pretty much any pieces you want to together (typically using Spring as the glue). The disadvantage is that that is so flexible there isn’t really an obvious starting point.